Four Human Strengths and AI Weaknesses
AI has an important role in augmenting humans, especially when humans and machines pair up, they can achieve more than either one separately. Advanced Chess is an example of humans and machines each bringing their unique strengths to the table to solve a problem.
Today, most AI techniques revolve around mathematical optimization of a cost function, the brain does none of that — we are more prone to mimicking and re-using the safe and sound approach that has been proven to work which has both its disadvantage and benefits.
(1) Humans are the master of conversational skills
(2) Humans can draw conclusions from low amounts of data
(3) Humans have creativity and imagination that is not always supported by data
(4) Humans have general intelligence — AI has narrow intelligence ~ AI systems tend to have a hard time readjusting their purpose to account for a changing situation. Given that AI is not adept at generalizing, it makes sense that they would have a hard time reorienting themselves to solve an entirely different problem.
In conclusion, AI cannot automate jobs that involve:
(1) Conversational skills
(2) Making decisions without thousands of data points as a reference
(3) Making decisions while acknowledging their effect on the world
(4) Making decisions that require a general understanding of the world
Most jobs involve a combination of these four skills, and as such, humans still have a place. At EruditeAI, they are excited to be developing new AI solutions that support a hybrid approach, humans and AI working together. Their next step is to remodel current workflows to take advantage of Human-Centered Machine Learning, such that humans can vastly increase productivity in the workplace; this way humans are empowered to reap the benefits of AI tools for the betterment of humankind.
Source: https://medium.com/eruditeai/four-human-strengths-and-ai-weaknesses-a0fc1d38d538